declamas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declamo, declamare, declamavi, declamatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Literature
declaim, make speeches (usu. as an oratorical exercise); bluster/bawl (L+S);
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Tiburtini. Hoc emis. Inposui: rus tibi uendo tuum. Declamas in febre, Maron: hanc esse phrenesin si nescis..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Camenas? I nunc, edere me iube libellos. Declamas belle, causas agis, Attice, belle; historias bellas, carmina bella facis..."
